What do you keep by the bed?

[Emirus]

So what do you have by your bed at night apart from an emergency potty? While you are asleep you have a dream with an award winning plot. You are confident you could write a story for which every reader would award 5️. But you know that in the morning when you wake up you won’t be able to remember it. Do you have a pad and pencil handy to write down some details; or do you record reminders on one of those new fangled smartphones; or a sharpie to write on your partner’s back? Or don’t you dream?

 

[MelissaBaby]

So what do you have by your bed at night apart from an emergency potty? While you are asleep you have a dream with an award winning plot. You are confident you could write a story for which every reader would award 5️. But you know that in the morning when you wake up you won’t be able to remember it. Do you have a pad and pencil handy to write down some details; or do you record reminders on one of those new fangled smartphones; or a sharpie to write on your partner’s back? Or don’t you dream?

I take my laptop to bed with me. Not only do I often wake up with thoughts I want to record, but sometimes, as I did yesterday, with whole passages worked out.

I do not, however, have an emergency potty.

 

[ElectricBlue]

What if you slept
And what if
In your sleep
You dreamed
And what if
In your dream
You went to heaven
And there plucked a strange and beautiful flower
And what if
When you awoke
You had that flower in you hand
Ah, what then?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 

[J_R_Ashunwhy]

So what do you have by your bed at night apart from an emergency potty?

No potty play here... let's see. In the nightstand there is a variety of small toys and wearable accessories. Under the bed, there are built-in drawers that house the larger toys, restraints, spreader bars... things like that. The headboard has a build in shelving unit, so I keep extra batteries, and the charger cords for some of the larger toys on one shelf; edgeplay accessories and my IPad on the other.

While you are asleep you have a dream with an award winning plot. You are confident you could write a story for which every reader would award 5️. But you know that in the morning when you wake up you won’t be able to remember it. Do you have a pad and pencil handy to write down some details; or do you record reminders on one of those new fangled smartphones; or a sharpie to write on your partner’s back? Or don’t you dream?

Oh shit, you meant for writing? Well in the case of wanting to write at night, or the asscrack of dawn before the alarm, I will get out of bed and head to the office to write on my laptop so as not to disturb Hubby's sleep. Of course... if it's an erotic story I'm working on, then I will disturb his sleep getting back into bed, right after going through the drawers and finding the toy I want to wake him with.

 

[MelissaBaby]

What if you slept
And what if
In your sleep
You dreamed
And what if
In your dream
You went to heaven
And there plucked a strange and beautiful flower
And what if
When you awoke
You had that flower in you hand
Ah, what then?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I'd go back to sleep and dream about Idris Elba.

 

[LoquiSordidaAdMe]

Or don’t you dream?

Sadly, I don't. Or if I do, I don't remember them when I wake up. The stack of paperbacks next to my bed has been replaced with a Kindle. And there's that damned alarm clock.

 

[SusanJillParker]

Since I live out in the country and since everyone is armed and dangerous in Pennsylvania, I keep a loaded .45 along with a shotgun under the bed.

What I may miss with one, I'll hit with the other.

 

[SusanJillParker]

I'd go back to sleep and dream about Idris Elba.

I agree with you about Idris Elba. He is one fine and sexy black man.

What always amazes me is how English actors can nail American accents, especially when American actors tend to screw up English accents.

 

[ChloeTzang]

What if you slept
And what if
In your sleep
You dreamed
And what if
In your dream
You went to heaven
And there plucked a strange and beautiful flower
And what if
When you awoke
You had that flower in you hand
Ah, what then?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

You'd have been smoking too much opium and forgotten the flower was from the bunch in the living room on the table and you'd go "wow dude, that was some good shit, who'd I buy that from? Gotta get me some more." And then you'd go back to sleep and wake up in the afternoon with the cold sweats and the whole thing would be a dream except there'd be this dead flower in your hand and you'd have the munchies so you'd eat it and there'd be nothing in the fridge and pay day was last week and you spent all your money on that opium shit and oh man you were so hungry so you'd go outside and try eating grass and that's when the cops turned up and took you away but at least they had donuts in the car and they gave you one before they brought you in to ER and the nice nurse there gave you her coffee and some hospital food and then you were fine.....

Almost true story... except for the flower....

 

[ChloeTzang]

I keep books and my phone by the bed and if I have bright ideas I text myself. That's it. Nothing else. The books take up all the space.

 

[LoquiSordidaAdMe]

EDIT: I don't know what happened with this post. I was in a hurry, I hit the wrong thing on my phone, got confused, hit another wrong thing and the post disappeared. I didn't have time to figure out how to get it back, so I let go. It wasn't a particularly worthwhile post anyway.

Not my proudest moment.

 

[loquere]

A big red button, sits on my night stand.

 

[JamesRitten]

Since I live out in the country and since everyone is armed and dangerous in Pennsylvania, I keep a loaded .45 along with a shotgun under the bed.

What I may miss with one, I'll hit with the other.

Lol Susan we would get along real well I think! I keep a loaded 9mm on the nightstand and a Smith & Wesson AR-15 under the bed

 

[Emirus]

Since I live out in the country and since everyone is armed and dangerous in Pennsylvania, I keep a loaded .45 along with a shotgun under the bed.

What I may miss with one, I'll hit with the other.

We visit the southern US states regularly to see friends and relatives and last year I got the use of a private gun range where I shot about 100 rounds. 3 guns. 2 with the bullets in the handle and one with laser sights. The third was a Dirty Harry “most powerful handgun in the world.” That I liked best but what a kick. I didn’t realise until I was told by a police officer, who has a gun in every room in his house including the bathroom, that you can buy furniture with secret compartments for holding a weapon.

 

[Emirus]

What always amazes me is how English actors can nail American accents, especially when American actors tend to screw up English accents.

The late Alan Rickman and Jeremy Irons in the first two Die Hard films are good examples but it’s not just as villains that we English are best. You are correct about American actors and English accents. Not all but most of them make us cringe when they speak. Some of them make Dick Van Dyke look good.

 

[Emirus]

I keep books and my phone by the bed and if I have bright ideas I text myself.

What a brilliant idea and use of technology. Never thought of that one.

 

[Emirus]

A big red button, sits on my night stand.

If you get a good idea make sure you call the doctor. Not just any doctor. THE DOCTOR.

 

[loquere]

If you get a good idea make sure you call the doctor. Not just any doctor. THE DOCTOR.

LOL, no! I have a built in intercom system in every room, with a recording component. When ever I have an idea in any room I simply talk out loud and record it.

 

[KindofHere]

..............

 

[Downfor]

A drink, remote, phone and of course lube!

 

[SimonDoom]

Always books. My phone. My reading glasses.

 

[J_R_Ashunwhy]

The late Alan Rickman and Jeremy Irons in the first two Die Hard films are good examples but it’s not just as villains that we English are best. You are correct about American actors and English accents. Not all but most of them make us cringe when they speak. Some of them make Dick Van Dyke look good.

The one with Jeremy Irons is the third, but we can totally pretend the second Die Hard doesn’t exist. Not all British actors are so great with their accents, unfortunately. Andrew Lincoln and Hugh Laurie always sound so constipated—to me—when they speak in their American accents.

 

[Carnevil9]

I used to keep a notebook by my bed for jotting down brilliant ideas. But it seemed like every damn time I had a brilliant idea in my sleep, when I read it by the cold light of day it was nothing but gibberish! So eventually I gave up on the whole thing.

 

[loquere]

Always books. My phone. My reading glasses.

That's simple and good.

 

[Oblimo]

Tongue stabilization devices
Nasal tampons
Hypnagogics